Annual Review
The Wellcome Trust 'Annual Review' highlights our achievements and activities for the year.
Download the current issue below, or view previous issues.
Current issue: Annual Review 2011
Read about our work from 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011. During the year, we celebrated our 75th anniversary, made the first Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards and announced plans for a new open-access journal.
Download Annual Review 2011 [PDF 10MB]
Summary Annual Review 2011
Read selected highlights from the Annual Review, about some of our work from 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011.
Download Summary Annual Review 2011 [PDF 2MB]
Additional resources
The 'Annual Review' follows the structure of our Strategic Plan 2010-20
, covering Trust activities and achievements under each of our three focus areas and five research challenges. Follow the links below for more background information and resources relating to this year's featured stories.
Focus areas
Focus area 1
Supporting outstanding researchers
Focus area 2
Accelerating the application of research
Focus area 3
Exploring medicine in historical and cultural contexts
Research challenges
Research challenge 1
Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics
Research challenge 2
Understanding the brain
Research challenge 3
Combating infectious disease
Research challenge 4
Investigating development, ageing and chronic disease
Research challenge 5
Connecting environment, nutrition and health